# 膾

| 膾 | U+81BE, &#33214; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81BE |
| ← 膽 [U+81BD] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 膿 → [U+81BF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

膾 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月人一日 (BOMA), four-corner 7826$_6$, composition ⿰月會)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29937
* Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2117, character 5
* Unihan data for U+81BE

## Chinese

* 膾 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Kuai (dish) (English)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 譮 | *qʰruːbs |
| 會 | *koːbs, *ɡoːbs |
| 儈 | *koːbs |
| 膾 | *koːbs |
| 鱠 | *koːbs |
| 襘 | *koːbs |
| 禬 | *koːbs, *ɡoːbs |
| 檜 | *koːbs, *koːd |
| 旝 | *koːbs |
| 澮 | *koːbs |
| 鄶 | *koːbs |
| 廥 | *koːbs |
| 鬠 | *koːbs, *ɡoːd |
| 劊 | *koːbs, *koːd |
| 獪 | *koːbs, *kroːbs |
| 繪 | *ɡoːbs |
| 懀 | *qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs |
| 薈 | *qoːbs |
| 嬒 | *qoːbs, *qoːd |
| 瞺 | *qoːbs |
| 噲 | *kʰroːbs |
| 璯 | *kʰroːbs |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kuài (kuai$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄞˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kui$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kòe
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kuài
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kuài
*** Wade–Giles: kʻuai$^4$
*** Yale: kwài
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
*** Palladius: куай (kuaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kui$^2$
*** Yale: kúi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kui$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kui$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuːi̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòe
*** Tâi-lô: kuè
*** Phofsit Daibuun: koex
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kue²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kue⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kue²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kue¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kue²¹/
* Middle Chinese: kwajH
Rime :
| Character | 膾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 泰 (26) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古外切 |
| Baxter | kwajH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kuɑi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷɑi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuɑi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɑi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kuɑi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kuɑi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gui$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[k]ˤ[o][p]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːbs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 膾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | kuài |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kwaj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*C.[k]ˁ[o][p]-s/ |
| English | mince (v.) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 膾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5495 |
| Phonetic component | 會 |
| Rime group | 蓋 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 儈 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːbs/ |

### Definitions

膾
* (historical) kuai, a historical Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw fish or meat
    See also: 軒
* (archaic) to mince; to chop

#### Compounds

* 斫鱠 / 斫鲙
* 膾炙 / 脍炙 (kuàizhì)
* 膾炙人口 / 脍炙人口 (kuàizhìrénkǒu)
* 蓴羹鱸膾 / 莼羹鲈脍
* 雜膾 / 杂脍
* 鮮膾 / 鲜脍
* 鱸膾 / 鲈脍 (lúkuài)

#### See also

* 鱠／鲙 (kuài)

## Japanese
### Alternative forms

* 鱠 (when made of fish)

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: え (e)、け (ke)
* Kan-on: かい (kai)
* Kun: なます (namasu, 膾)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 膾
* なます Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) なます [nàmású] (Heiban – [0])
* (Tokyo) なます [nàmásúꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
* IPA: [na̠ma̠sɨ]

### Noun

膾(なます) • (namasu)
* namasu, a Japanese dish consisting of thinly sliced uncooked vegetables and meat or seafood, marinated in rice vinegar

#### Usage notes

* This specific spelling (膾) largely refers to namasu made of non-fish meat.

### References

* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

膾 (eumhun 회 회 (hoe hoe))
* hanja form of 회 (“sliced raw meat or fish”)

#### Compounds

* 생선회 (生鮮膾, saengseonhoe)
* 육회 (肉膾, yukhoe)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

膾: Hán Nôm readings: gỏi, khoái, cối, quái
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